metsach · forehead

What it means

metsach (מֵצַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “forehead”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The part of the face above the eyebrows; a hard brow is a sign of stubbornness.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• forehead ×11
• foreheads ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×5

• Exodus 28:38

  It shall be on the forehead of Aaron, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things that the sons of Israel consecrate, in all their holy gifts; it shall be on his forehead continually, for their acceptance before YHWH.

• 1 Samuel 17:49

  David stretched out his hand to the bag and took from there a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

• 2 Chronicles 26:19

  Uzziah was enraged, and in his hand was a censer to burn incense; and when he was enraged with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of YHWH, beside the altar of incense.

• 2 Chronicles 26:20

  Azariah the head priest and all the priests turned toward him, and look, he was leprous on his forehead. They rushed him out of there, and he himself also hurried to go out, because YHWH had struck him.

• Isaiah 48:4

  Because I knew that you are hard, and your neck is a sinew of iron, and your forehead bronze,

• Jeremiah 3:3

  And the showers have been withheld, and there has been no late rain; yet the forehead of a prostitute woman you have had; you refused to be ashamed.

• Ezekiel 3:7

  But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me; for all the house of Israel, they are hard of forehead and hard of heart.

• Ezekiel 3:8

  Look, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

• Ezekiel 3:9

  Like diamond, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not fear them, and do not be dismayed at their faces, for they are a rebellious house.”

• Ezekiel 9:4

  And YHWH said to him, “Pass through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are done in its midst.”

And 3 more times.